Make count_tiles and find_tiles filtered

[darkfrei]

Hi all!

It would be good to search tiles with some fast function. For example we have

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surface.count_entities_filtered{area=…, position=…, name=…, type=…, force=…, limit=…}

with parameters

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surface.count_entities_filtered{area=area, force=player_force, limit=1}

, it works much better then code like

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function find_first_good_tile_in_chunk(chunk, surface, good_tiles_list)
	for y = (chunk.y*32), (chunk.y*32+31) do
		for x = (chunk.x*32), (chunk.x*32+31) do
			local tile = surface.get_tile(x, y)
			for i, tile_name in pairs (good_tiles_list) do
				if tile and (tile.name == tile_name) then
					return true
				end
			end
		end
	end
	return false
end

Reference mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/darkfrei ... mptyChunks
Performance was got from https://mods.factorio.com/mods/darkfrei ... sion/21503 - first tile searching needs twice (in this case) more time then first entity searching with force in higher quantity of chunks.

[darkfrei]

Or it will be good to have tile.force by all player placed tiles, if it possible.

[Rseding91]

Or it will be good to have tile.force by all player placed tiles, if it possible.

There exists no such property that the game could expose. All tiles are forceless and owned by no one.

[darkfrei]

There exists no such property that the game could expose. All tiles are forceless and owned by no one.

There must be one parameter - can this tile be removed by the player or not. Or was this tile place by player or was generated. I can remove concrete, but I can't remove landfill. Why?